The debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the new
law against associations, occupy the French newspapers, to the exclu- sion of almost every other subject. An amendment, proposed by M. BBRENGER, one of the Tiers Parti, which recognized the right to associate, but subjected that right to the control of the Govern- ment, was rejected on Tuesday, by a large majority. Several other amendments will be proposed ; but there appears to be no doubt that the Government will carry the " whole bill, and nothing but the bill." The Tribune and the National declare that the law will be resisted by force, for that the spirit of the men of the Barricades is not yet broken. It remains to be seen where this will end. Louis PHILIP, SOULT, and THIERS, are not such imbeciles as CHARLES the Tenth, POLIGNAC, and PETRONNET ; and will scarcely try a coup (fetal unless they have a hundred thousand men at their backs.
Louis PHILIP is daily disclosing himself more and more, as a cunning, unprincipled despot. On this point there is much con- current testimony. The weekly information we receive from personal friends in France is of the same tenour as that which we find in the private correspondence of the Standard, the True Sun, and at length in the Times also. The French Government is growing shy of the English alliance, and courting and crouch- ing to the despots of Germany and Russia. In so doing, King Louis PHILIP may be deemed wise in his generation. He is plainly one of their set. That be is now so considered, is evident from the cordial reception given at St. Petersburg to Marshal MAISON, whom not long since NICHOLAS would nut receive. Then, Pozzo DI BORGO is constantly at the Tuileries, and exults mightily in the convert he has made. A marriage of one of the King's sons with a Russian Princess is talked of. Yet our Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. STANLEY boast of the alliance with France, as so beneficial to this country, and likely to be so en- during ! We trust that the People of France and England will indeed grasp each other fast by the hand; but as for the profli- gate and tyrannical Government of Louis PHILIP, we would hold it in precisely the same degree of regard as that of the Czar or the German Sovereigns.
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